Christianity, Islam and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West

For many Americans the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, was the first time they had considered the nature of Islam. Were the terrorists motivated by the true dictates of their religion, or had they hijacked Islam as well as the planes in a political cause unrelated to the teachings of Muhammad?

Christianity, Islam and Atheism argues that Islam is a religion of conquest and subjugation and that in spite of 9/11 and thousands of other terrorist attacks throughout the world, many Western people still do not know or admit this truth because it conflicts with their belief in multiculturalism and its insistence on the equivalence of all cultures and religions.

To meet the challenge from Islam, Christians need to know more about the striking differences between Islam and Christianity, yet many Christians have been lulled into complacency by the misleading and largely unexamined assumption that Christians and Muslims share similar beliefs. The time that Christians spend in pursuing false hopes of finding common ground is time that Islamic activists are using to press their militant agenda.

In addition to challenging both the multicultural and common-ground approaches, William Kilpatrick also exposes the role played by atheists and secularists in advancing Islam's totalitarian agenda. Despite playing lip service to freedom, radical secularists willingly serve as enablers of radical Islam. The civil liberties that Americans and Europeans enjoy are the fruit of Christian civilization, Kilpatrick argues, and only a reawakened Christianity can defend them against Islam's advance.